Plácido Domingo

Spanish tenor and conductor

One of the world’s leading tenors, who alongside Pavarotti has attempted to give opera a widespread, classless appeal.

Spouse	Marta Domingo , Ana María Guerra Cué
Children	Plácido Domingo Jr.
Parents	Pepita Embil , Plácido Domingo Ferrer

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Renata Scotto, the operatic soprano, who has died aged 89, described herself in a memoir as “more than a diva”; a diminutive 5ft tall (she was once criticised as being “too short for Tosca”) she made up for what she lacked in height with a piercingly accurate voice, a fierce sense of dramatic characterisation and a refusal to be taken for granted.